Quotes About Dance

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.

In my normal life I don't walk around with make-up. I'm just a mum at a dance school.

Being 'Strictlyfied' is the opposite to who I am normally, but on this show, you definitely have to go with the flow.

Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters.

My dancing idol is my dad. Growing up watching him dance to Northern Soul I used to think 'He looks cool.'

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cultural shows, and in my notes, I would actually create formations of people. It was how my whole brain worked.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

I really only had one audition in my life, and that was when I was 14 or 15. When I was that young, I listened to what my teachers would say, like wearing a certain kind of leotard that you'll be noticed in.

Fashion and nightlife, the catwalk and the club, are notorious for going hand-in-hand.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

My song in 'Vaastav' was my debut dance number.

I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

I feel an obligation to use black dancers because there must be more opportunities for them, but not because I'm a black choreographer talking to black people.

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

Vijaya Dashami is considered to be an auspicious occasion for children to commence their education in classical dance and music, and pay homage to their teachers.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.